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Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted increasing interest as a unique class of topological quantum materials. One distinct property of HOTIs is the crystalline symmetry-imposed topological state at the lower-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Xiaoyin Li , Feng Liu

Higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) represents a new phase of matter, the characterization of which goes beyond the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence and is attracting significant attention by the broad community. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Lingling Song , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) are the topological phases of matter in d dimensions that manifest (d-2)-dimensional localized modes at the intersection of the edges. We show that SOTIs can be designed via stacked Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Ce Shang , Xiaoning Zang , Wenlong Gao , Udo Schwingenschlögl , Aurélien Manchon

We demonstrate that HOTIs with the quantization of the quadrupole moments can be realized in the two-dimensional elastic phononic crystals (PnCs). Both one-dimensional (1D) topological edge states and zero-dimensional (0D) topological…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Zhen Wang , Qi Wei , Heng-Yi Xu , Da-Jian Wu

According to topological quantum chemistry, a class of electronic materials have been called obstructed atomic insulators (OAIs), in which a portion of valence electrons necessarily have their centers located on some empty…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-05 Lei Wang , Yi Jiang , Jiaxi Liu , Shuai Zhang , Jiangxu Li , Peitao Liu , Yan Sun , Hongming Weng , Xing-Qiu Chen

Square-root higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are recently discovered new topological phases, with intriguing topological properties inherited from a parent lattice Hamiltonian. Different from conventional HOTIs, the square-root…

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a family of topological phases that go beyond the conventional bulkboundary correspondence. d-dimensional n-th order HOTIs maintain (d - n)-dimensional gapless boundary states (in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Rujiang Li , Wencai Wang , Yongtao Jia , Ying Liu , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

Higher Order Topological Insulators (HOTI) are $d$-spatial dimensional systems featuring topologically protected gap-less states at their $(d-n)$-dimensional boundaries. With the help of \textit{ab-initio} calculations and tight binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Santosh Kumar Radha , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Recently extended from the modern theory of electric polarization, quantized multipole topological insulators (QMTIs) describe higher-order multipole moments, lying in nested Wilson loops, which are inherently quantized by lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Xiang Ni , Mengyao Li , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

The higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), with such as the topological corner states, emerge as a thriving topic in the field of topological physics. But few connections have been found for the HOTIs with the well explored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Zhongbo Yan , Mou Yan , Weiyin Deng , Gang Chen , Zhengyou Liu

Topological materials (TMs) are well-known for their topological protected properties. Phononic system has the advantage of direct observation and engineering of topological phenomena on the macroscopic scale. For the inverse design of 3D…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jiachen Luo , Zongliang Du , Hui Chen , Xianggui Ding , Chang Liu , Weisheng Zhang , Xu Guo

Corner states (CSs) in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have recently been of great interest in both crystals and quasicrystals. In contrast to electronic systems, HOTIs have not been found in photonic quasicrystals (PQCs). Here,…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-26 Langlang Xiong , Yu Zhang , Yufu Liu , Yaoxian Zheng , Xunya Jiang

Recently, high-order topological insulators (HOTIs), accompanied by topologically nontrivial boundary states with codimension larger than one, have been extensively explored because of unconventional bulk-boundary correspondences. As a…

Topological multipole insulators are a class of higher order topological insulators (HOTI) in which robust fractional corner charges appear due to a quantized electric multipole moment of the bulk. This bulk-corner correspondence has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 S. Franca , J. van den Brink , I. C. Fulga

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted much attention in photonics due to the tightly localized disorder-robust corner and hinge states. Here, we reveal an unconventional HOTI phase with vanishing dipole and quadrupole…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Maxim Mazanov , Maxim A. Gorlach

Topological invariants are a significant ingredient in the study of topological phases of matter that intertwines the supposedly contradicting concepts of bulk and boundary. The nature of the invariants differ depending on the dimension of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

Synchronized rotation of unit cells in a periodic structure provides a novel design perspective for manipulation of band topology. We then design a two-dimensional version of higher-order topological insulators (HOTI), by such rotation in a…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-05 R. Zhou , H. Lin , Y. Wu , Z. Li , Z. Yu , Y. Liu , Dong-Hui Xu

Topological quantum chemistry (TQC) classifies the topological phases by real-space invariants in which obstructed atomic insulators belong to the trivial case but sometimes show the feature of higher-order topological insulator. Here, for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-02 Hongyu Chen

The interplay between crystalline symmetry and band topology gives rise to unprecedented lower-dimensional boundary states in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). However, the measurement of the topological invariants of HOTIs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Ling Lin , Chaohong Lee